This is a great ad showing all of the things that men have to give up / put up with / sit through in order to be good husbands to their wives. The Dodge Charger is supposed to be the man's reward for all his good and patient behavior!

After about the third face, I had to hit the MUTE button, but I watched until the Charger showed up.

Then I clicked over to see what was on the Discovery Channel, before clicking back to the game.

I owned a real Dodge Charger once. Wish I still did. A 1969 model. The classic version of the several years of the car, IMHO.

This modern "thing" with the Charger name plate is NOT a Charger! At least, the new version of the Challenger really does look like a classic Challenger. Not identical to the classic Challengers, but you can tell what it is just by looking at it.

Huh?That ad was kind of annoying... If I was a wife, i wouldn't nag a guy about half of those things.Maybe not peeing on the toilet seat, but I'd politely tell him not to do that because sitting in pee is gross.

Is this love big enough to watch over me?
Big enough to let go of me
Without hurting me,
Like the day I learned to swim?-Kate Bush The Fog

Huh?That ad was kind of annoying... If I was a wife, i wouldn't nag a guy about half of those things.Maybe not peeing on the toilet seat, but I'd politely tell him not to do that because sitting in pee is gross.

I agree, Synethesia. Most of that stuff is so unimportant. However, men ought to know to lift the seat before peeing. Even when I was much younger, I wouldn't have put up with a guy who didn't know better. (Putting it back down is another story.)

I hated this ad. Just as I hate ads that portray all men as dumb idiots, I hate ads that portray women as bitches. If your life sucks so bad, pal, that you have to give it all up to make your woman happy, a car isn't going to make it better. It's such an OBVIOUS ad that I guess it's as much a dumb man ad as a bitch woman ad, which makes me hate it twice.

What does Dr Traci have to say about it? http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Dr-Traci

I hated this ad. Just as I hate ads that portray all men as dumb idiots, I hate ads that portray women as bitches. If your life sucks so bad, pal, that you have to give it all up to make your woman happy, a car isn't going to make it better. It's such an OBVIOUS ad that I guess it's as much a dumb man ad as a bitch woman ad, which makes me hate it twice.

I hated this ad. Just as I hate ads that portray all men as dumb idiots, I hate ads that portray women as bitches. If your life sucks so bad, pal, that you have to give it all up to make your woman happy, a car isn't going to make it better. It's such an OBVIOUS ad that I guess it's as much a dumb man ad as a bitch woman ad, which makes me hate it twice.

I totally agree!

"Xbox Live is an online homophobia club for pre-teen Tourette’s sufferers." - Brockway, Cracked.com

Here
are a bunch of depressed looking men who feel outrageously oppressed by
their jobs (since they are corporate slaves to the capitalist machine
that creates this type of commercial, ironically enough), their wives
(the eternally resented 'mother' figure), and their lives in
general...but oh, goody, Dodge Charger will be their last hurrah! All it takes is owning this one car to escape the HELL that is your life.

Not
only are the marketing geniuses at Dodge privy to this weakened state
of mind, but they have no problem exploiting this vulnerability by
knowing exactly which buttons to push on the defeated souls of American
men in order to sell a car.

They are catering to the masses...The men who are slaves in cubicles the
majority of their lives & look forward to a few lousy weeks of
so-called freedom per year if they're lucky.... Or divorced men who
aren't allowed to see their beloved children even when 25%, or more, of
their salary goes to support a family they no longer have.

Men
who will never have the financial security or freedom to have all they
dreamed of in life as little boys ...and let me tell you, it didn't
include a Dodge Charger.

Since I've stopped watching television
several years ago, I think it's made me more sensitive to the insidious
way marketers try to get inside our heads, since I never see
commericials (saw this one online)...and it really ticked me off!

Since I've stopped watching television several years ago, I think it's made me more sensitive to the insidious way marketers try to get inside our heads, since I never see commericials (saw this one online)...and it really ticked me off!

Then, you might like the article that Yutolia linked in the off-topic section:

"it is a shame, but yours is more of a philosophical/sociological
argument. It is hard to rally against a corporate structure that exists
based on the state of the world it exists within."

I see your point. And I guess I give these powerful organizations way too much credit by thinking they would have a conscience and DO something about it...instead of exploiting the reality that exists.

Then again, look at the Dove corporation that put out those ads with representations of the *average* woman being turned into an air-brushed beauty before our eyes. They also incorporated women with many different body types into their ads...Hanes did this also, I believe. But wow, they sure are in the teeny-tiniest percentage of powerful companies working a little harder at not making us feel like inadequate schleps!

Here
are a bunch of depressed looking men who feel outrageously oppressed by
their jobs (since they are corporate slaves to the capitalist machine
that creates this type of commercial, ironically enough), their wives
(the eternally resented 'mother' figure), and their lives in
general...but oh, goody, Dodge Charger will be their last hurrah! All it takes is owning this one car to escape the HELL that is your life.

Not
only are the marketing geniuses at Dodge privy to this weakened state
of mind, but they have no problem exploiting this vulnerability by
knowing exactly which buttons to push on the defeated souls of American
men in order to sell a car.

They are catering to the masses...The men who are slaves in cubicles the
majority of their lives & look forward to a few lousy weeks of
so-called freedom per year if they're lucky.... Or divorced men who
aren't allowed to see their beloved children even when 25%, or more, of
their salary goes to support a family they no longer have.

Men
who will never have the financial security or freedom to have all they
dreamed of in life as little boys ...and let me tell you, it didn't
include a Dodge Charger.

Since I've stopped watching television
several years ago, I think it's made me more sensitive to the insidious
way marketers try to get inside our heads, since I never see
commericials (saw this one online)...and it really ticked me off!

I agree. Hell's holy bells, if I was those men with their kind of money, I'd quit my cruddy job after saying money and run off to some island with my wife and never mind buying an expensive behind car that would just take me to that cruddy job.

Is this love big enough to watch over me?
Big enough to let go of me
Without hurting me,
Like the day I learned to swim?-Kate Bush The Fog

I really hated this commercial a lot. Since the collective male ego has been marginalized by the economic situation as well as by other commercials/sitcoms that send this kind of message, corporations like to kick them while they're down to make a buck. I agree with lucky, and think that this commercial, if you really think about it, IS VERY "PC" because: if you are simply a jaded husk of a man as a result of our nightmarish corporate system and an airheaded trophy wife, the system celebrates a win!

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